Google Display ads work for cosmetic practices primarily as retargeting, showing ads to people who have already visited specific procedure pages on your website. Cold audience display ads for cosmetic procedures have low conversion rates and high view-without-engagement rates. Retargeting is the exception: people who visited your rhinoplasty page and then see your ad elsewhere on the web are meaningfully more likely to return and book.
Display retargeting for cosmetic practices targets people who have already shown purchase intent by visiting specific procedure pages. A patient who spent 3 minutes on your rhinoplasty page, read the FAQs, and looked at before-and-after photos is a high-intent prospect. Showing them a rhinoplasty-specific display ad on other websites they visit keeps your practice top of mind during their consideration period, which can last weeks to months for major procedures.
Google prohibits before-and-after images in display ads for most cosmetic procedures. This eliminates the most effective creative format for cosmetic practices from the display channel. Ads without before-and-after imagery typically generate low engagement and brand awareness that does not translate to appointments. Understanding this constraint before investing in display is essential.
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Book Free Audit →Uday Rajaram is the founder of Medical Marketing Firm. He has spent 22 years in digital marketing, starting as a developer in New York, and has run Google Ads, SEO, and AI search programs for more than 100 medical and cosmetic practices. He is the author of Earned Traffic.
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